Democratic Primaries

I read a lot of Taibbi back during the Dubya years...simply adored his writing style. Watching him pound away at Dubya, Big Dick, Rummy, Condi and the rest of that entire rotten administration was truly a thing to behold. Those were mighty dark times for us Dems back then...they had totally botched our response to 9/11 and lied us into a tragic bogus war where we ended up losing thousands of patriotic American troops and spending trillions of precious American dollars and all we got for all that spilt blood and spent bucks was a destabilized Middle East. The Goppers had the White House, the Senate and the House and we were totally powerless to stop this idiotic war or the GOP's reckless tax cuts or any other stupid shit they could think up.

Back then, guys like Matt Taibbi and Michael Moore and a small handful of others were our only way of fighting back and voicing our opposition as we Democrats were carried against our will to places we didn't want to go. They were the light at the end of a long dark tunnel. Who woulda thunk that a scant number of years later those very lights would turn out to be trains bearing down on us in 2020, with Bernie as the conductor? But the more derailed Sanders' campaign became the more deranged these once-valiant progressive punchers have become.

I stopped participating in political forums not long Obama got into office and also stopped reading Taibbi, so I wasn't aware of his downturn. A quick google now reveals recent articles like "Bush was tougher on Wall Street than Obama was" and other nonsensical shit like that. And of course we've all seen some of the rants that Moore has gone on in recent times. We have a VA to help take care of our old and broken valiant military warriors...I think we may need to start a similar institution to take care of these totally spent progressive warriors, before they hurt themselves or somebody else. After Truman had fired him, MacArthur told Congress in his farewell address "old soldiers never die, they simply fade away". It's about time for these formerly fierce social soldiers to be put out to pasture and "simply fade away". And take their cult leader with them while they're at it.